Featured Jobs
|
3(16) Retirement Plan & Customer Liaison Compass
|
|
Plan Administrator, Defined Benefit & Cash Balance The Pension Source
|
|
Strategic Retirement Plan Consultant Retirement Plan Consultants
|
|
Defined Benefit Plan Consultant/Actuarial Analyst Sentinel Group
|
|
MAP Retirement
|
|
DWC - The 401(k) Experts
|
|
Retirement Relationship Manager MAP Retirement
|
|
Sentinel Group
|
|
MAP Retirement
|
|
Regional Vice President, Sales MAP Retirement
|
|
Pattison Pension
|
|
Pension Investors Corporation
|
Free Newsletters
“BenefitsLink continues to be the most valuable resource we have at the firm.”
-- An attorney subscriber
|
|
|
Text of Ninth Circuit Opinion: Attorney Fee Award Considers Entire Litigation, Not Limited to Specific Issue on Appeal (PDF)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 
Nov. 10, 2017 "[In] analyzing a party's request for appellate attorney's fees under the Hummell test, a court must consider the entire course of the litigation, rather than focusing exclusively on the prior appeal. Weighing the five Hummell factors in light of all of a defendant's conduct, from its wrongful denial of the plaintiff's claim for ERISA benefits to its filing of a petition for a writ of certiorari, the panel held that the moving party was entitled to attorney's fees for the prior appeal, in which the panel had affirmed an award of litigation attorney's fees." [Micha v. Sun Life Assurance of Canada, Inc., No. 16-55053 (9th Cir. Oct. 31, 2017)] MORE >> |
| Please click here to report this link if it is broken (for example, if you see a "404 File Not Found" error message after you click on the linked news item's title). |
| An important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® created this link to the news item, but we are not the news item's author (unless expressly shown above). |